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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
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All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.
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The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity of the world, but poorly to clear-cut cartography.
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I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
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At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.
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Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions and trillions of pulses in your brain by a single photon of light, the combined output would be blinding.
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Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
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If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.
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Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
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Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in the simplest explanation is probably correct, also known as Occam's razor), but we should not get seduced by the apparent elegance of argument from parsimony this line of reasoning has failed in the past at least as many times as it has succeeded.
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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
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We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe - far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.
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It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
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Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.
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You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.
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Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.
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